Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

» To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

» While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

» To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

» Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

» Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

» Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

» Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

» A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

» Our ideals are our better selves.

» A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

» The less routine the more life.

» Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

» Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

» Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

» One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

» Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

» Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

» The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

» Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

» That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

» Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

» We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

» Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

» The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

» First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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